Birkett Common Event 14.6.2000

Because this event was so far from home (nearly 50 miles!), I wanted to put on an event that made people think a little, was easy to put out and collect, and was good fun.  Hopefully it worked!!  As it turned out, most people were out for about 60-70 minutes, I only used 8 controls, and the event was packed up and ready for home before 9.15pm.  Thanks to Jim Dominy for collecting some of the controls...

At the start, you had to copy down the four main controls from a master-map.  When each of these controls was visited, they found a punch and another map which showed the positions of three more controls.  Only ONE of those marked actually had a control placed - the other two were 'phantom' controls.  If you were lucky, you visited the actual control first - if not you could visit all three sites before finding the control!  Controls could be visited in any order.

The Short Course had to find six punches, the Long Course had to find all 8.

The map below show the four main controls (A-D), the four extra controls (A1-D1), and the eight phantom controls.  Dave Crutchley had the dubious honour of visiting all 16 sites to find his controls.

If none of the above makes any sense, and you want to know more - please email me or see me at a future event